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Modelling the different smallpox epidemics in England.
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Time series analysis has revealed two different patterns of smallpox epidemics in Britain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: in large conurbations (exemplified by London) the disease was endemic whereas medium-sized rural towns (exemplified by Penrith, Cumbria) suffered from 5 year epidemics with no cases of smallpox in the inter-epidemic years. The oscillations (epidemics) persisted for over 150 years and it is suggested that both systems were pumped up by regular fluctuations in s...
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- 10.1098/rstb.1994.0158
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- Journal:
- Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
- Volume:
- 346
- Issue:
- 1318
- Pages:
- 407-419
- Publication date:
- 1994-12-05
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1471-2970
- ISSN:
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0962-8436
- URN:
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uuid:128476f0-838c-43c4-8e33-08ff86ed95a3
- Source identifiers:
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317442
- Local pid:
- pubs:317442
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- English
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- Copyright date:
- 1994
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